On 3/4/2021 7:46 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Do we know if we can use Hoch/HochHom on inherently plural nouns?
Could we write {Hoch cha} for "all torpedos", and {HochHom cha} for "most torpedos"?
Or {cha Hoch} for "all of the torpedos", and {cha HochHom} for "most of the torpedos"?
I don't believe we've ever seen *Hoch* or *HochHom* applied on either side of an inherently plural noun or an "inherently singular noun." If I had to guess, I'd guess as follows: *Hoch peng*/each torpedo/ (considered individually)/ /*Hoch cha*/all torpedoes/ (considered collectively)/ /*peng Hoch*/all of the torpedo/ (a complete torpedo)/ /*peng HochHom*/most of the torpedo/ (an incomplete torpedo) *HochHom cha*/most of the torpedoes/ (not every torpedo in the set) Not meaningful: *HochHom peng cha Hoch cha HochHom* I can see a case being made for *cha Hoch* and *cha HochHom* being used for /all of the torpedoes/ and /most of the torpedoes,/ respectively, instead of *Hoch cha* and *HochHom cha,* in that you can consider *cha* to be the singular set of torpedoes, and having a complete set would be all of the set, and having an incomplete set would be having most of the set. And, of course, I'm not considering the /scattered all about/ versions of these words. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name